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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1969
Page
10
A motorist's view along Highway 13 near Alburnett shows high winds and drifting snow closing over 70 northeast Iowa schools. Roads and county routes are drifted shut after mixed precipitation Thursday into Friday, with a car in a ditch captured at night.
Iowa lawmakers consider a bill to let two or more counties merge into a single entity after a voter majority in each county. The proposal allows boards of supervisors to place merger votes or for 10 percent of county electors to trigger consolidation talks with a neighboring county.
Franklin G. Barber, 20, of Des Moines was found guilty by a jury on a manslaughter charge for the May 30 shooting death of Joyce T. Brown of Des Moines.
The Iowa Senate higher education committee approved a bill to let the state regents arm campus police and allow arrests. Sen. J. Don Weimer abstained, fearing misuse of police powers, while others favored university control and rapid training for officers amid 1967 campus disruptions.
Iowa social services urges 30 measures to shift county costs to state funds and extend ADC eligibility to more groups. Plans include joint county jail projects, an interstate compact for offenders, bi monthly payments, and state assumed liability for some prison medical staff.
State Senator David Stanley will hold two Tell Your Senator public meetings Saturday afternoon in West Liberty and Clarence. The first meets at West Liberty City Hall from 1 to 2 30 p.m. The second at Clarence City Hall from 3 30 to 5 p.m. He invites anyone to discuss state legislation.
Legislative notes explain errors in the current legislative directory and announce a new herd book after the January 28 election. It will add missing Scott county Subdistrict 2 senator Edward E. Nicholson and correct misattributions between Robert D. Ray and Robert F. Ray. It also notes mixups of the Rays wives’ names in coverage.
Iowa City and Johnson county plan to file a court injunction early next week to block state ordered property valuation increases set to start in 1969. City Attorney Honohan and County Attorney Jansen, who met to discuss strategy, aim to challenge Forst's mid November order as discriminatory against local taxpayers.
Mrs. Thomas Bates of Wellman receives the Handicapped Iowan of the Year award from Gov. Robert Ray at an Iowa ceremony. Bates runs a ceramics business from her wheelchair, one of four honorees recognized by the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.
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